Stepper controller to manually input a specific degree

[Jonathan]

There's been threads about it before. The option m_c has posted looks good, but it is rather expensive for what it is.

Other options:
http://www.mycncuk.com/forums/electr...ndexing-3.html

EDIT: Sorry, didn't spot that that had already been linked to.

If you need someone to program the PIC pm me and I'll do it for you. Could probably write the code for my own with a display in about an hour... it's very simple.

Personally I just plug it into the controller for CNC router/mill and use the method hank describes. I don't really see much point in using the above methods when you can just use a computer you found in the skip, connect the parallel port a cheap stepper driver and run it on mach3 / linuxcnc. You don't even need a breakout board if you use an opto isolated driver (e.g. m542) and the parallel port is old enough to output 5V.